'The ECHR, in accordance with Rule 39, obliged the government of the Russian Federation to immediately put Crimean political prisoner Refat Chubarov into a hospital and provide him with due examination and treatment', Chubarov wrote.

The detained Crimean Tatar activist has been held in detention in the occupied peninsula since February 2018; he suffers several critical symptoms. Last months, his lawyer reported that Bekirov coughed with blood and experienced symptoms of suffocation.